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Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to
either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to $1,000 in fines,
according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court.

Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, two
ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d'Alene.

"Right now they are at risk of being prosecuted," attorney Jeremy Tedesco told
me. "The threat of enforcement is more than just credible."

The wedding chapel is registered as a "religious corporation" limited to
performing "one-man-one-woman marriages as defined by the Holy Bible."

However, the chapel is also a for-profit business and city officials said that
means the owners must comply with the local nondiscrimination ordinance.

That ordinance, passed in 2013, prohibits discrimination based on sexual
orientation and it applies to housing, employment and public accommodation.

City Attorney Warren Wilson told The Spokesman-Review in May that the Hitching
Post Wedding Chapel likely would be required to follow the ordinance.

"I would think that the Hitching Post would probably be considered a place of
public accommodation that would be subject to the ordinance," he said.

He also told
television station KXLY that any wedding chapel that turns away a gay
couple would in theory be a violation of the law "and you're looking at a
potential misdemeanor citation."

Wilson confirmed to Knapp in a telephone conversation that even ordained
ministers would be required to perform same-sex weddings, the lawsuit alleges.

"Wilson also responded that Mr. Knapp was not exempt from the ordinance because
the Hitching Post was a business and not a church," the lawsuit states.

And if he refused to perform the ceremonies, Wilson reportedly told the
minister that he could be fined up to $1,000 and serve up to 180 days in jail.

Remember when Liberty meant something?

Liberals love to harp on the "separation of church and state" when it suits
their (often nefarious) purposes. No religion in the public square! Unless it's
a Christian minister ordered at gunpoint to perform a same-sex "wedding." Then,
party on dudes!

The state will compel you to sin. The state will compel you to celebrate
sin.

This is not America. We were a nation founded by people seeking religious
freedom, people who fled government oppression of their beliefs and rites.
They came to these shores to be left alone, to be free from persecution.

Now the government they created to guarantee their freedom has become the
oppressor, cloaking its thuggery in the guise of "equality." The homofascists
use that word, but it does not mean what they think it means. This new tyranny
is the antithesis of the Founders vision. And its goal is to ensure that every
last vestige of religious liberty is eradicated, because homosexuals believe
they are "more equal" than anyone else.